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discoloration around knuckles after heavy psychedelic use

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My friends and I just got back from a 3 day music fest. One of my friends was taking massive amounts of LSD, shrooms, and even peyote throughout the 3 days. By the 3rd day I noticed his knuckles were very discolored, almost like the were bruised. Is this related in anyway to his psychedelic use? He also took a few points of MDMA over the weekend and a bump of ketamine here and there.
 
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I don't think there's any obvious pharmacological mechanism for that. Though it's possible that some combination of muscle clenching and vasoconstriction contributed to it - a 3-day binge is inevitably going to be pretty rough on the body.

Also - could your friend have simply bruised his knuckles doing something dumb (or worth getting minor injuries for) while tripping balls?
 
could it have been your vision possibly? ime when i use psychedelics and mdx compounds after a session or a weekend with multiple sessions my vision will be affected to where i see myself different visually. my skin will look brighter/darker ill see other bruising colors at times my freckles will really stand out, penis will even look bigger/smaller at times, imo its because my perception is still not back to baseline.
 
Why do you care about bruises on your friends hand? It's his problem, not yours. What are you going to do - tell him that you asked people about the bruises on his hand after he "was taking massive amounts of LSD, shrooms, and even peyote throughout the 3 days" - and everyone agrees that he can stop worrying about it? Except - he's not worried about it, and it's only a bruise - on his hand - after taking massive amounts of LSD - over 3 days?!
 
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Why do you care about bruises on your friends hand? It's his problem, not yours. What are you going to do - tell him that you asked people about the bruises on his hand after he "was taking massive amounts of LSD, shrooms, and even peyote throughout the 3 days" - and everyone agrees that he can stop worrying about it? Except - he's not worried about it, and it's only a bruise - on his hand - after taking massive amounts of LSD - over 3 days?!
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LOL, yeah I guess there is not much you can do now. hell I doubt he will die from it.
 
yeah there might be nothing we can do but his buddy was still asking a question, why ask him why he cares about his friends hand? its obvious that he cares about his friend and he's just curious about what might have caused it and if the drugs he was using could have possibly caused it. this is a harm reduction site if someone is curious about something they should ask instead of letting it go just in case imo.

there are compounds out there that has the potential to give you gangrene i wouldnt blow off limbs changing colors like its nothing.
 
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Because it's not his hand - and his friend doesn't care.

A bruise on a hand from someone who took acid, mushrooms, peyote, mdma, and ketamine over 3 days. That doesn't seem too bad to me.
Gangrene! Come on man. 'Harm reduction' implies reducing the 'inevitable harm' of taking psychedelics. I don't agree with that mentality myself. And I don't believe that LSD causes ergotism, either. As you please, though, mr. insane - I see 'harm reduction' and stupid questions to be incompatible.
 
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Because it's not his hand - and his friend doesn't care.

A bruise on a hand from someone who took acid, mushrooms, peyote, mdma, and ketamine over 3 days. That doesn't seem too bad to me.
Gangrene! Come on man. 'Harm reduction' implies reducing the 'inevitable harm' of taking psychedelics. I don't agree with that mentality myself. And I don't believe that LSD causes ergotism, either. As you please, though, mr. insane - I see 'harm reduction' and stupid questions to be incompatible.
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your so right i wish i could have a mentality more like yours one day ;)
 
thanks for the responses guys. I imagined it might have something to do with vasoconstriction, but i thought that would show on your feet before your hands and his feet looked ok. He is fine and said that it didn't hurt so no harm no foul i guess. I was just wondering if it was something to worry about.
 
Isn't this similar to the pale color in your face that can often result from things like this: it's a layer of moisture/water inside your skin layers - when you're still fresh and rested it's all there but when you take some heavy duty *anything* I think the nutrients there are used up and you tend to go pale there. In the hands it can go to pretty weird extents i.e. worrying tints, which I agree is probably the added vasoconstriction or muscle fatigue produced by drug use. In any case signs of bad upkeep.
 
Well, consider that you guys were at a music festival. He's probably just dirty at this point. The man sounds like he's been tripping so hard that he just fell over a few times.
 
it could certainly be vasoconstriction, but I'm a diver (as in swimming and diving) and I know lots of kids that get really blue knuckles after jumping in and out of the water a few times and being cold and wet.

there's also the prospect of holding your breath till you turn blue, the vasoconstriction could be preventing as much oxygenized blood from being in that area. ya know, the 'blue blood' you see in health diagrams and such.
 
He was taking peyote? How was he doing this? Did he take his own half a dozen 15 year old peyote cacti to the gig?

Perhaps he spent a lot of time on his knuckles and knees. Probably best not to ask why.
 
Honestly man, just stop posting here. Youre not helping your case at all. And you really sound like you dont care about harm reduction which, is what being here is all about. Its a simple question.
 
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